ما دمية أنشأها قالبي

ما دمية أنشأها قالبي

في قلبه يعبدها عذلي

في قلبه يعبدها عذلي

No idol fashioned by my bodily form

A doll I have created but my heart worships her blindly

In its heart is worshipped by those who reproach me

In her and those like her, but they

فيها وفيهم مثلها غير أن

فيها وفيهم مثلها غير أن

قد جهلوا ما هو معلوم لي

قد جهلوا ما هو معلوم لي

Over her; and within them is her likeness, except that

Are ignorant of what is known to me

They have not known what is known to me.

If reason judged her fairly, it would see

إن أنصف العقلُ رآها وقد

إن أنصف العقلُ رآها وقد

ألحقت المدبر بالمقبل

ألحقت المدبر بالمقبل

If reason judges fairly, it will see her—she has already

She makes the setting like the rising sun

Joined the one turning away to the one approaching.

In every case, she has an image

في كل حال عندها صورة

في كل حال عندها صورة

يشهدها العالي إذا يعتلى

يشهدها العالي إذا يعتلى

In every state she has a form

Witnessed by the high when he ascends

Which the one on high beholds when he ascends,

Perfect in herself, as what

كاملة في ذاتها مثل ما

كاملة في ذاتها مثل ما

يشهدها السافل في الأسفل

يشهدها السافل في الأسفل

Complete in her essence, just as

Is witnessed by the low in the depths

The lowly one beholds her in the lowest place.